Coloration?

[Drago]

Decided to make an official thread to ask, but to all the breeders/judges (or at least people highly experienced with colors) can any of you say for sure what Duncan's coloration is? I and a few others have guessed things along the lines of, Gray banded, gray broken banded, silver-gray, Silver gray banded, etc. would be nice to know for sure! Thank you









I can get more photos if needed

[AprilPearl]

I am by no means a colour expert so I am afraid that I cannot answer this, but Duncan does have a very lovely colour. To me he looks as though he has some very light cream on him mixed with the grey and white?

[Drago]

Originally Posted by AprilPearl

I am by no means a colour expert so I am afraid that I cannot answer this, but Duncan does have a very lovely colour. To me he looks as though he has some very light cream on him mixed with the grey and white?

That's a perfect description of his color, couldn't have put it better! I've always just said he's "opossum" colored lol, clearly not proper. It'll be good to get a definitive answer

[AprilPearl]

Originally Posted by Drago

That's a perfect description of his color, couldn't have put it better! I've always just said he's "opossum" colored lol, clearly not proper. It'll be good to get a definitive answer

Love it. You don't think he could be an extreme dilute tortoishell, do you? I don't know much about the ED gene and I know it is very rare to get a male tortoishell so probably not.

Edit: Nah, forget it. I think tortoishell shave blocks of colour. You can see I shouldn't be even trying to guess lol.

[Hekomi]

He's a heterozygous silver grey banded short hair!

As reference, the only breeder in Europe who I believe still has ED is Hamsterhuette. So there aren't too many EDs across the pond at all. Very sad, since it's very lovely.

Het-SG and ED Golden often get confused, haha.

ETA:

Here is an ED Golden for reference:



Differences: Ear Colour, Nose Smudge, ED is yellowier.

Het-ED Golden (like my Lindt) is a lot lighter.

[AprilPearl]

Wow, that is a long name for such a little hamster

[Hekomi]

Originally Posted by AprilPearl

Wow, that is a long name for such a little hamster

You can shorten the colour name to Het-SG Banded SH. Not so bad.

[Drago]

Thank you so much for clarifying! Glad I can finally tell people that rather than "opossum" colored

[AprilPearl]

Originally Posted by Drago

Thank you so much for clarifying! Glad I can finally tell people that rather than "opossum" colored

I still think "opossum" should be the official name. So much more catchy

[dreamtree1234]

Drago, I am so happy that you now know the exact coloration of your stunning guy. Hekomi, you are AWESOME!!!